Improved weather-strip



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Letters Patent No. 93,487, daad August 10, 1869.

IMPRovnn WEATHER-STRIP.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part 0f the lame.

To all 'whom 'it may concern:l Beit known that I, J ons SHAW, of Clayton, in the county of Kent, and State of Delaware, have invented a new and improved 'Weather-Strip; and -I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable' others -skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had t the accompanying drawing, forming part of this speciiieation. v v

This invention relates to a new and improved arrangement for preventing the entrance of wind and water under outside doors; and consists in operating a d1op-ilap, by means of a rod and spirall spring, arranged as hereinafter described.` In the accompanying sheet of drawing-` Figu'rel represents a front view, and 1 Figure 2, an end view of my weather-strip, attached to'a door.

Similar letters of reference' indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the door.

B is the casing or jamb.

C is the door-sill. l

D is the threshold, over which the door closes.

My .weather-stiip is composed of two principal parts:

First, a shield, E, which is fastened to the door, as.

seen at its upper edge, inclining downward at an angle of about twenty degrees, (more or less,) to theunder side of which the iiap F is hinged, vby pivots or otherwise, so that when the door is closed, as seen in the drawing, it drops down in front of the edge of the threshold, and eifectually excludes wind and rain.

In iig. 2, the iiap s seen in this position.

G is a rod, which is placed in a groove in the shield, where it is free to slide loi'lgitndinally.

Upon the inner end of this rod there is a spiral l spring, which bears against the rod with a constant pressure, te force it outward a certain distance.

scribed.

0n this rod, near the middle of the flap, there is a hook, (seen in dotted lines in iig. v1) which catches ,under a plate, h, on the flap, as the rod is forced ontuntil the door is again closed.

The rod G is held in the groove in the shield by means of plates i.

The flap may he hinged to the door, if desired, instead of to the shield, as the result would be the same.

It will be seen that the iiap is raised, andlocked against the shield when the door is opened, by means of the threshold D and that it is released, and allowed to drop when the, door is closed, by meansof the pressureof therofd against the casing, as already described.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

, The hinged flap F, adapted t-o be thrown up by the threshold D', when the door is swung open, and held against the shield E by means of the h ookiormed upon the sliding spring-rod G catching. under the plate h attached to said flap, as herein shownv and de- JOHN sHAw.

Witnesses J oHN S. OASPERSON, N. Srnv'ron. 

